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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Percentile/ percentile rank
VV
Macron
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
2. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Achievement test
Universal Screening
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Six basic types of syllables
3. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Auditory Processing
Joe Torgesen
RTI
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
4. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Sound Symbol Association
Expressive language
Top-down Reading Approach
Latin layer of language
5. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Great Vowel Shift
Norm-Referenced Test
Sight Words
NICHD
6. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Suffix
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Analytic
ADHD
7. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Composite Score
Sound Symbol Association
IDEA
Phonics
8. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
James Hinshelwood
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Criterion-Referenced Test
VC
9. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Greek layer of language
Comprehension
Vr
10. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Orthography
Profile
Rate
Syntax
11. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Trigraph
V-e
Composite Score
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
12. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Digraph
Oral Language
Middle English
Sound Symbol Association
13. Feeling through fingertips
VC
Modern English
Tactile
Phonology
14. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
VAKT
Towre
Mathew Effect
Standard deviation
15. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Phonics approach
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Cognition
Phonemic/ decodable words
16. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Derivative
Pre-English
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
ALTA
17. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Raw score
Impulsivity
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Cedilla
18. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Progress Monitoring
Funding
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
19. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Sight Words
Phonemic/ decodable words
Affix
20. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Multisensory
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Phonemic/ decodable words
21. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Samuel T. Orton
Multi-Sensory Approach
Affix
Dyslexia
22. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Diagnostic tests
Auditory Learners
Phoneme
23. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
CTOPP
GORT
Latin layer of language
Affix
24. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Multisensory
Diagnostic tests
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Mastery level
25. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
ESL
James Hinshelwood
Percentile
Texas Education Code 28.06
26. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
Macron
Chall's Stage 5
ALTA
27. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Phonological Awareness
Sound Symbol Association
NICHD
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
28. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
GORT
Direct Instruction
ADHD
V >
29. r-controlled syllable
Latin layer of language
Sound Symbol Association
Vr
Grapheme
30. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Stanine Scores
ESL
Anna Gillingham
Synthetic Instruction
31. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Fluency
Prefix
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
32. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Diagnostic tests
Impulsivity
Composite Score
Phonics approach
33. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Profile
Phoneme
MSLE
Middle English
34. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
ALTA
Quadrigraph
Percentile
35. Individual Educational Plan
Cedilla
Chall's Stage 1
VC
IEP
36. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Phonology
IDEA
Morpheme
Orthography
37. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
GORT
Digraph
Multisensory
Attention
38. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Universal Screening
Diphthong
Middle English
39. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Raw score
Keith Stanovich
Simultaneous teaching
Ability
40. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Chall's Stage 1
Macron
Phonemic/ decodable words
Standard Scores
41. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Standardized test
Open Syllable
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Auditory Learners
42. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Auditory Learners
Phonemic Awareness
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
43. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
WIATII
Phonics approach
Chall's Stage 2
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
44. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Base Word
Anglo Saxon
Standardized test
Chall's Stage 2
45. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Morphology
Vowel
Chall's Stage 4
Linguistic Method
46. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Combination
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Diagnostic Teaching
Linguistic Method
47. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Base Word
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Latin layer of language
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
48. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Digraph
Visual Processing
Tactile
49. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Semantics
Derivative
Linguistic Method
Mathew Effect
50. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Battery
Vowel
Fluency
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